[Pokémon] The Secret Academy
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Chapter 3: A night in the woods
After a few minutes, perhaps hours of walking, I found a little small river. Around it where multiple Pokémon drinking from the water. There were no real hostile Pokémon, like Mightyena. Only small, weak ones including Lotad, Blitzle and Sewaddle. I walked towards the water to refill my water bottle. My trusty Charmeleon was afraid of water, so he just stood on the edge of the forest. When I bowed down to the water, a Lotad waddled towards me. One time I heard Lotad were commonly used to transport water on top of the leaves they were wearing. A few seconds later it appeared so. I placed my empty bottle on the ground and Lotad indeed poured water inside. I stroked its face, it smiled happily at me, turned around and waggled back to its other species. I used to have a great friend who was training a Lombre. I always thought that the Lotad line was very weak compared to the other Pokémon. Of course I always lost when he challenged me to a battle. He did had 1 badge, I still have none, but that's also because I wasn't traveling around yet.
"Lombre! Water Sport!"
"Yeah? What do you think that's going to do? Charmander, tackle!"
It was my very first trainer battle. I did had some experience though, but only from fighting Fletchling and Rattata. They were nothing like this. This was a Lombre I was dealing with.
"It isn't all about attacking. Focus and find a str-"
"Yeah yeah! Back to battling!" I interrupted.
In the meanwhile my Charmander jumped forward, head butting the way bigger Lombre. But when my Charmeleon regained his position, my friend and current rival said: "Lombre! Water Sport again!
"You're just gonna keep using that lame water move? You're not going to get far with that. Charmander may be a fire type. But Water Sport isn't doing any real damage! Tackle again!"
"Just use Water Gun." Charmander rushed forward, but this time didn't get far. After his third step he fell over because of the slippery ground. Lombre didn't have any trouble at all moving around. It readied its Water Gun and not long after that a compact ball of water was shot. In less than a second it hit Charmander, who was still lying on the ground. Exactly when Water Gun hit my Pokémon. It exploded right in front of him and Charmander flew once again against a tree.
"So Lucus, what did I hear about Water Sport being useless?"
"Oh shut it, Ryan. You won, happy now?" I had quite a short temper when I was little.
"Bet that I do!" He gave me a big smile and stretched out his arm that was holding a Pokéball.
"Lombre, return!" I did the same and called my Charmander back. "Ryan! Ask your friend if he wants to eat pancakes!" a gentle voice said coming from a small house not far from the battlefield.
"Mom! Don't talk like that! I'm not a little kid anymore" he answered.
I had to burst out laughing and Ryan gave me an irritated smirk.
In the meanwhile I forgot that I was still walking around in the forest. I ate my only apple to prevent starving. My arm started to feel weaker and my Charmeleon seemed tired of walking. With my fit arm I grabbed his Pokéball out of my shoulder bag and said: "Charmeleon, return." The usual red beam appeared out of the button of the ball and surrounded my Pokémon. Charmeleon was sucked inside the Pokéball and could now rest. I myself still had to walk around a bit before being able to find shelter. I kept feeling like there was never going to be an end to this forest. "Krrrr… Krr… krrr…" Something scared me and I quickly turned around." Krrr… Krr.. Krakraaaaatu!" The Pokémon the voice came from suddenly flew up. "Holy Milktank! What the…" Above me was flying a strange green bird. Its face was implemented inside its main body. It kept flying in circles and after a few rounds it started to rise up to the sky. I recognized the bird as a Natu. It appeared that it was sleeping on a branch from a birch tree nearby and I awakened it while walking around. I tried to yell "Sorry!" after it but it was already gone.
It started to rain. I settled myself under a big tree and prepared to rest a bit. In a forest like this not many hostile Pokémon appear. Mightyena were quite rare to see here and usually originate from plains. But Pokémon like Ariados and Galvantula were more common. And that's quite terrifying for me since I'm as death for spiders. I tried to close my eyes but as soon as I did that, I heard a cry. Up above the trees were flying a pack of Murkrow. They were singing, or whatever you might call it.
After a few minutes which seemed more like hours I was finally be able to doze off.
When I woke up, the first thing I saw was a cabbage. Yes, a cabbage. I was hungry and I didn't have any food left so I grabbed it and started to eat. "It isn't polite to eat someone's food without first asking permission." In front of the tree that was standing right before me appeared a strange man. He had already grown his first grey hairs which was now covering up his greenish hair. Furthermore he was wearing a red scarf and a black overall hold together by a purple belt. He had quite much wrinkles and looked like he was around 60 years old. The man came forwards without breaking a single branch from the ground. "S-sorry, I didn't mean to.." I stumbled until I was quickly interrupted
by the same man. "Eat up, you must've been hungry. We'll start with introductions later."
Immediately I started eating the cabbage. I normally don't like vegetables that much but I had to eat.
It was quite uncomfortable how that strange but nice man kept looking at me until I silently groaned because of my arm and he said: "Alright, let's get some medicines for your arm. Follow along."
I began leaning on my healthy arm and stood up. The old man maybe have been old, but he sure wasn't slow. I had to almost run to keep up with him. "Now we're walking, why not start with telling your name?" He gently asked. "My name? I'm Lucus, Osidien Lucus."
"Lucas? Well nice to meet you." And he smiled. I corrected him: "Not Lucas, Lucus with the U of.. Lucus. But aside from me, who are you exactly?" The man looked at me and reduced his tempo so I could easier keep up with him. "Well, Lucus. My name is Koga."
That's it for today! Tomorrow there might not be a next chapter since I will be quite busy.
-osidien